Getting Dressed as a Medieval Queen
In this video, historical interpreters go through all the stages of dressing for medieval women, both for wealthy and poorer working women, to create an outfit fit for a queen…
Selling you a furniture fantasy
This video is all about selling furniture. How it is done today at IKEA and how Montgomery Ward did it 100 years ago.
Cleanliness in the Tudor Kitchens at Hampton Court Palace
The Tudor kitchens at Hampton Court Palace served over 400 people a day in the court of Henry VIII. Lavish feasts for the King and courtiers, and meals for 200…
What Grocery Shopping Was Like in the Middle Ages
Medieval Cherry Cheesecake
What the Art World Doesn’t Want You to Know About Yayoi Kusama
It’s worth considering that perhaps Kanye, and also Kusama, might somehow be off-limits from criticism because of their well-publicized mental illnesses. It’s certainly been enough to have put an asterisk…
Former Bosnian Serb military leader Ratko Mladic dies
Former Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, who was serving a life sentence for genocide in the 1992-95 war in Bosnia, has died aged 84 in the United Nations detention centre…
2 people die from measles in Pennsylvania, marking state’s first deaths in 35 years
Last year's total of 2,289 was previously the highest number of recorded measles cases in more than 30 years, CDC data shows. However, the 2,777 total now marks the highest…
History’s Worst Copper Merchant
and His 4000 Year Old Cake
Interview with Curtis Brown Literary Agent, Lily Kovacs
A Conversation with Lily Kovacs (literary agent over at our prize partner Curtis Brown) about the literary world today, indie publishing, how writers find agents, how agents find writers, the…